[Servercert-wg] Discussion Period Begins: Ballot SC-062 V2: Certificate Profiles Update [Discussion Round #2]

Fri Feb 17 21:32:53 UTC 2023

I appreciate the reminder from Wayne and Dimitris on the importance of
using immutable links for the redline!

Please find a corrected version of the Redline link in the message below.
The ballot text and all else remains unchanged.

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Purpose of Ballot SC-062 V2

Over the past three years, members of the Server Certificate Working Group
Validation Subcommittee have collaborated on an update to the Baseline
Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted
Certificates focused on improving the clarity of Section 7 (“Certificate,
CRL, and OCSP Profiles”).

The update:

   1.

   better aligns certificate content expectations across certificate
   issuers and consumers,
   2.

   reduces the opportunity for confusion resulting from the absence of a
   more precise certificate profile specification, and
   3.

   promotes more consistent and reliable implementations across the
   ecosystem.

While most of the proposed updates focus on Section 7, changes were not
limited to only this section.

Technical discussion related to the proposed changes, along with high-level
change summaries have been documented in:

   -

   open GitHub pull requests (originally here
   <https://github.com/sleevi/cabforum-docs/pull/36>, and more recently here
   <https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/373>),
   -

   several closed GitHub pull requests made against the “profiles
   <https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/tree/profiles>” branch of the
   servercert GitHub repository (most recently here
   <https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/418>), and
   -

   Validation Subcommittee meeting minutes (to include sessions held at
   Face-to-Face meetings).

Due to a small number of changes proposed in the ballot that is otherwise
focused on clarifying existing requirements, an “all-encompassing”
effective date makes these changes normative beginning 2023-09-15.

*Updates included in "Version 2" (compared to the changes
<https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/2c63814fa7f9f7c477c74a6bfbeb57e0fcc5dd5b..0689ba59dbad9f5d2a5269051e5e0d0d1a25f3f6>
presented in "Version 1")*

   - PR #418 <https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/418> (various
   editorial and content nits, increased specificity related to
   cross-certificate EKU expectations)

The following motion has been proposed by Ryan Dickson of Google and
endorsed by Clint Wilson of Apple and Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA.

— Motion Begins —

This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and
Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” (“Baseline Requirements”),
based on Version 1.8.6.

MODIFY the Baseline Requirements as specified in the following Redline:
https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/2c63814fa7f9f7c477c74a6bfbeb57e0fcc5dd5b..aa9fc5d0b2b59504a31638e880cb81c69aefa018

— Motion Ends —

This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for
approval of this ballot is as follows:

Discussion (11+ days)

   -

   Start time: 2023-02-17 19:00:00 UTC
   -

   End time: Not before 2023-03-03 15:00:00 UTC

Vote for approval (7 days)

   -

   Start time: TBD
   -

   End time: TBD

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 2:00 PM Ryan Dickson <ryandickson at google.com> wrote:

> Purpose of Ballot SC-062 V2
>
> Over the past three years, members of the Server Certificate Working Group
> Validation Subcommittee have collaborated on an update to the Baseline
> Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted
> Certificates focused on improving the clarity of Section 7 (“Certificate,
> CRL, and OCSP Profiles”).
>
> The update:
>
>    1.
>
>    better aligns certificate content expectations across certificate
>    issuers and consumers,
>    2.
>
>    reduces the opportunity for confusion resulting from the absence of a
>    more precise certificate profile specification, and
>    3.
>
>    promotes more consistent and reliable implementations across the
>    ecosystem.
>
>
> While most of the proposed updates focus on Section 7, changes were not
> limited to only this section.
>
> Technical discussion related to the proposed changes, along with
> high-level change summaries have been documented in:
>
>    -
>
>    open GitHub pull requests (originally here
>    <https://github.com/sleevi/cabforum-docs/pull/36>, and more recently
>    here <https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/373>),
>    -
>
>    several closed GitHub pull requests made against the “profiles
>    <https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/tree/profiles>” branch of the
>    servercert GitHub repository (most recently here
>    <https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/418>), and
>    -
>
>    Validation Subcommittee meeting minutes (to include sessions held at
>    Face-to-Face meetings).
>
>
> Due to a small number of changes proposed in the ballot that is otherwise
> focused on clarifying existing requirements, an “all-encompassing”
> effective date makes these changes normative beginning 2023-09-15.
>
>
> *Updates included in "Version 2" (compared to the changes
> <https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/2c63814fa7f9f7c477c74a6bfbeb57e0fcc5dd5b..0689ba59dbad9f5d2a5269051e5e0d0d1a25f3f6>
> presented in "Version 1")*
>
>
>    - PR #418 <https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/pull/418> (various
>    editorial and content nits, increased specificity related to
>    cross-certificate EKU expectations)
>
>
> The following motion has been proposed by Ryan Dickson of Google and
> endorsed by Clint Wilson of Apple and Dimitris Zacharopoulos of HARICA.
>
> — Motion Begins —
>
> This ballot modifies the “Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and
> Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates” (“Baseline Requirements”),
> based on Version 1.8.6.
>
> MODIFY the Baseline Requirements as specified in the following Redline:
> https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/compare/2c63814fa7f9f7c477c74a6bfbeb57e0fcc5dd5b..profiles
>
>
> — Motion Ends —
>
> This ballot proposes a Final Maintenance Guideline. The procedure for
> approval of this ballot is as follows:
>
> Discussion (11+ days)
>
>    -
>
>    Start time: 2023-02-17 19:00:00 UTC
>    -
>
>    End time: Not before 2023-03-03 15:00:00 UTC
>
>
> Vote for approval (7 days)
>
>    -
>
>    Start time: TBD
>    -
>
>    End time: TBD
>
>
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